This data article reviews the revised “peace data,” describing the motivations behind them
and offering a general description of the different peace scale levels—severe rivalry, lesser …

Since Beck, Katz, and Tucker (1998), the standard method for modeling time dependence in
binary data has been to incorporate time dummies or splined time in logistic regressions …

IR theory is dominated by the logics of consequentialism and appropriateness. But Max
Weber offered four logics of choice, not just two. Beyond the instrumental rationality of …

We seek to answer the question, What effect does international war participation have on the
ability of political leaders to survive in office? We develop a model of political reliability and …

Mediation has become a common technique for terminating violent conflicts both within and
between states; while mediation has a strong record in reducing hostilities, it is not without …

The 1990s saw the emergence of a new research agenda focused on enduring rivalries,
longstanding competitions between the same pair of states. The original Diehl & Goertz …

Mediation has competing short‐and long‐term effects. In the short run, the actors are better
able to identify and settle on a mutually satisfying outcome. In the long run, mediation can …

Militarized interstate disputes are widely thought to be less likely among democratic
countries that have high levels of trade and extensive participation in international …

The enduring rivalry (ER) framework was developed for studying the long-term dynamics of
serious conflicts between pairs of states. Here, the logic and structure of that framework is …

This article draws on international relations theory to attempt a reframing of the Armenian–
Azerbaijani conflict in Nagorny Karabakh as an enduring rivalry (ER): a particular kind of …